• A study published on May 15, 2024, in Emerging Infectious Diseases, is based on 2,479,423 COVID cases from 21 jurisdictions reported to the CDC from May 1, 2020, to December 1, 2020.

• They also analyzed 4,708,444 cases from 22 jurisdictions for a death dataset during the same time frame.

• The case hospitalization dataset covers 25.5% of the US population, and the case-fatality dataset covers 43.7% of the US population.

• Overall case-hospitalization rate among patients was 5.7% and the rate by sex for males was 6.2% and 5.2% for females. 

• It was lowest for children aged 5-14 years and highest for 75 years and older.

• In the death dataset, overall case fatality was 1.7%.

• Higher rates were seen in infants, lowest in children of 5-14 years of age and it increased steadily with age.

• The fatality rate was 0.6% in non-hospitalized patients, 17.6% among hospitalized and 44.2% in patients admitted to ICU.

• The study reiterates the findings of previous studies that have shown a 50% mortality among patients admitted to the ICU during the pandemic. 

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